I certainly agree with you, that many of Jim's songs intentionally connect, but I think that it's foolish to suggest that every melody that Jim reuses is evident of a deeper meaning.
I agree much more with whomever (I am sorry, but I'm already typing up the message and I don't want to read back through the post to discover who it was) said that Jim seems to reuse musical bits over and over until a song that contains one becomes a hit.
Jim does not, typically, reuse musical pieces which appear in hit songs. (A few exceptions of this exist, including Total Eclipse in Tanz, but the entire song also appears in the musical, and thus othere references to it are internal.) If your theory were true, Jim would be just as likely to reuse music from hit songs, which, as I said, he is not.
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